Curious how many of your Firewalla owners run a whole-home (/whole-network) VPN 24/7 at the router level.
Do you use a paid service like Nord, Proton, etc? What would you consider to be the pros & cons?
Finally, can someone explain the difference between putting a group on a ‘route’ that goes through a VPN vs turning on the VPN server for that group? I’m a bit confused between those options.
#FWG
I route some devices through a commercial VPN. Depending on what they do, it’s not as convenient. Many bank websites don’t work well or don’t work at all if they think you are on VPN. Same for Netflix and maybe others.
Yes, I use StrongVPN to do this.
I route pervasive advertisers through a VPN that way it obfuscates any IP based targeting due to the shared IP address.
I then route selective domains & ports – e.g. p2p, iptv – through a VPN as well for privacy.
When you configure devices to route through a VPN in the VPN configuration screen, you don’t have the option of choosing selective routes. Instead it’s an all or nothing. If you use routes, you can use things like target lists to route only specified traffic through the VPN.
I use mullivad at the router level; easy to configure, they provide good config files for doing this, and i have everything on my lan behind the VPN
works well, a site or 2 like my bank sometimes doesnt like it, and disney plus on my nvidia shield pro doesnt like it either, but everything else works great, and at good speeds
I do. I have setup the routes as I have two VPN connections. One for most traffic (VPN1) and the other one to unblock tv for a certain region (VPN2).
All traffic is send over VPN1 except when they are on one of the 2 target lists:
Target list “no VPN” for traffic that should circumvent the VPN1
Target list for country TV to send traffic over VPN2
Reason for not sending a group over VPN is the segmentation for different VPNs
Re: pervasive advertisers, is there a “known-domain” list for this to make it easier to cover the lion’s share?